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Robotics Start‑class Mid‑importance

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Work in progress

Please note - this page has been created as a direct copy of material that was in the robot page. It needs a good copyedit and wikify, which I'll do once I've finished with robot Kcordina 09:59, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Original research

At its finest. "Because the robot TV shows are popular, the army uses robots and there's a slug-eating robot in England, it's obvious we're all terrified of them rebelling against us." WHAT??? Please come up with a source, though I doubt there is one to be found. --132.69.234.73 11:07, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

TV Shows

The popularity of the TV shows Robot Wars Robotica and Battlebots, of college level robot-sumo wrestling competitions, the success of "smart bombs" and UCAVs in armed conflicts, grass-eating "gastrobots" in Florida, and the creation of a slug-eating robot in England, suggest that the fear of an artificial life form doing harm, or competing with natural wild life, is not an illusion. The worldwide Green Parties in 2002 were asking for public input on extending their existing policies against such competition, as part of more general biosafety and biosecurity concerns. It appears that, like Aldous Huxley's concerns about human cloning, questions Karel Čapek raised eighty years earlier in science fiction have become real debates. (this comment added by IP user 132.69.234.73 on 11:07, 2 March 2007)

Categorization

I removed the "Other notable annual competitions" heading. It seems weird to make that distinction between the competitions. It seemed arbitrary to me.

However, if someone wanted to categorize the competitions according to school level or type of robot, i think that would help the page. ---- BAxelrod 14:09, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Rewrite / Reorganize

I've made a first pass at rewriting this article to remove the "advertising" aspects and wiki-normalize it. More work is required: to clean it up; incorporate anything new from Robot about competitions, preparatory to slimming down the content in the Robot article itself; and to incorporate treatment of the various television shows, which are equally significant in this field. Comments and help are appreciated.

I have also formed the idea, as noted above, that this listing is best organized in master sections: open competitions, broadcast competitions, university competitions, high-school/children's competitions; and secondarily by format, i.e. ground, aerial, underwater; and then alphabetically. Almost all of the individual entries can be so categorized. Again, comments on this treatment and ways to handle the more comprehensive entries spanning categories are welcomed. Franamax (talk) 01:15, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

• Start-Class Robotics articles
• Mid-importance Robotics articles
• WikiProject Robotics articles